Richard Flanagan
Paperback | Pages: 382 pages Rating: 3.89 | 1888 Users | 181 Reviews
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| Title | : | Death of a River Guide |
| Author | : | Richard Flanagan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 382 pages |
| Published | : | 2004 by Atlantic Books (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Tasmania. Literary Fiction |
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Aljaz Cosini is leading a group of tourists on a raft tour down Tasmania's wild Franklin River when his greatest fear is realized—a tourist falls overboard. An ordinary man with many regrets, Aljaz rises to an uncharacteristic heroism, and offers his own life in trade. Trapped under a rapid and drowning, Aljaz is beset with visions both horrible and fabulous. He sees Couta Ho, the beautiful, spirited woman he loved, and witnesses his uncle Reg having his teeth pulled and sold to pay for a ripple-iron house. He sees cities grow from the wild rain forest and a tree burst into flower in midwinter over his grandfather's forest grave. As the entirety of Tasmanian life—flora and fauna—sings him home, Aljaz arrives at a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking, where his family tree branches into stories of all human families, stories that ground him in the land and reveal the soul history of his country.Define Books Conducive To Death of a River Guide
| Original Title: | Death of a River Guide |
| ISBN: | 1843542196 (ISBN13: 9781843542193) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Australia Tasmania(Australia) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 1888 Users | 181 ReviewsJudge Out Of Books Death of a River Guide
I have been granted visions grand, great, wild, sweeping visions. My mind rattles with them as they are born to me.Aljaz Cosini and Jason Krezwa are river guides, taking a group of tourists on a raft trip down Tasmanias Franklin River. Rain falls, and the river is in flood. Flowing rapidly, the Franklin is more dangerous. One of the tourists falls overboard and drowns. Then Aljaz becomes trapped under a rapid, and as he drowns is beset with visions. It is said that drowning men will see theirI'm only within the first 20 pages and I have an irrepressible spine-tingling feeling that this will be an amazing book.
It's probably a bad sign if you groan when there is another page and the book just won't end.
A torrent of a novel that swirls and eddies and washes over you like the waters of the Franklin River where Aljaz Cosini is drowning. And, as we have always heard, a drowning man sees his whole life flash before him. Here, it is more than just his life, it is also the life of his ancestors, and through them the history of Tasmania, a history that is bloody and disturbing, but touched by magnificent moments of humanity and man's struggle against nature raw in tooth and nail. It is a hugely
It's an interesting story. I liked the beginning and then it got a bit too difficult to read. At least for me. I liked it because it was different, the writing idea is good and the overall plot is interesting.There are parts of dialogue that are difficult to understand for me as I'm not raised with the English jargon. And then there's the first person going to third in the same sentence which requires a six-times-over the same sentence to get the idea. You get the idea :)The book is a good read
This was an interesting novel of a man looking back on his life while he was drowning. The writing was wonderful, in the lines of Faulkner in a way. It gave the notion that you do see your life played out as you die and that there are the people you know, family, friends, and those you love who are there for you at the end of your earthly life.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh. But what connects the two? What remains? What abideth in the earth forever? My introduction to Richard Flanagans work was the award-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North which didnt particularly excite me. I was impressed with his talent for description and the communication of his characters thoughts but the story left me cold. Now, I have the blessing to have a wonderful boss. She adores books as much as I do and Death of a River
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